VSCode.info

Welcome to VSCode.info! The place to learn VSCode!

This website is meant to be the “missing documentation” for the VSCode editor by Microsoft. Since I was dissatisfied with Microsoft’s online documentation, I decided to make this website as a reference and guide to the features of VSCode. This is a work in progress and you should check back every so often for more information.

How do use this website.

The website itself is meant to be structured so that finding information on anything is easy and straightforward. This is accomplished by the features listed below:

The primary way of finding exact information on particular things. Sidebar items are sorted alphabetically. Clicking a link in the sidebar will first take you to the index page of that particular topic which provides a synopsis relevant to that topic and then to subcategories and individual pages within that topic. You will notice that the contents of the sidebar will change to reflect the current context.

The breadcrumbs bar at the top of the page reveals the exact context that you are in at any moment. The items are the breadcrumb list are links themselves and can be used to navigate “backwards” all the way back to the Home page (this page). Try clicking a few things in the sidebar and notice the change in the breadcrumbs and then navigate back to the Home page to continue reading.

Of course, the Home page does not have a link to the Home page.

URL Structure

You will also notice that the URL of each page reflects the contents of the breadcrumbs. This means that you can navigate directly to a page if you know exactly what you are looking for.

For now, the search feature is using Google search with a special query that opens the results in a new tab. You do not have to enter any special query for this to work, just type what you are looking for in the search box above the sidebar and a new tab with Google search results will open up. The downside to this is that new content on the website will need to be indexed by Google before results appear, which might take a few hours or a day or two. Using Google search is a temporary stop-gap and there are plans for implementing search that does not rely on this.

Tags

At the bottom of the sidebar is a “Tags” link. Many pages are associated with one or more tags which are sort of loose categories.